The Eve Of Election Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEFGGFHHICCJKK LMMLCCNKKNOOBPPBQQRS SRLLTUUTVVWXXYJJZA2B 2ZC2C2JD2D2JD2D2E2F2 F2G2H2H2I2D2D2I2J2J2 K2AAK2L2L2M2N2N2M2O2 O2N2CCN2FROM gold to gray | A |
Our mild sweet day | A |
Of Indian Summer fades too soon | B |
But tenderly | C |
Above the sea | C |
Hangs white and calm the hunter's moon | B |
In its pale fire | D |
The village spire | E |
Shows like the zodiac's spectral lance | F |
The painted walls | G |
Whereon it falls | G |
Transfigured stand in marble trance | F |
O'er fallen leaves | H |
The west wind grieves | H |
Yet comes a seed time round again | I |
And morn shall see | C |
The State sown free | C |
With baleful tares or healthful grain | J |
Along the street | K |
The shadows meet | K |
Of Destiny whose hands conceal | L |
The moulds of fate | M |
That shape the State | M |
And make or mar the common weal | L |
Around I see | C |
The powers that be | C |
I stand by Empire's primal springs | N |
And princes meet | K |
In every street | K |
And hear the tread of uncrowned kings | N |
Hark through the crowd | O |
The laugh runs loud | O |
Beneath the sad rebuking moon | B |
God save the land | P |
A careless hand | P |
May shake or swerve ere morrow's noon | B |
No jest is this | Q |
One cast amiss | Q |
May blast the hope of Freedom's year | R |
Oh take me where | S |
Are hearts of prayer | S |
And foreheads bowed in reverent fear | R |
Not lightly fall | L |
Beyond recall | L |
The written scrolls a breath can float | T |
The crowning fact | U |
The kingliest act | U |
Of Freedom is the freeman's vote | T |
For pearls that gem | V |
A diadem | V |
The diver in the deep sea dies | W |
The regal right | X |
We boast to night | X |
Is ours through costlier sacrifice | Y |
The blood of Vane | J |
His prison pain | J |
Who traced the path the Pilgrim trod | Z |
And hers whose faith | A2 |
Drew strength from death | B2 |
And prayed her Russell up to God | Z |
Our hearts grow cold | C2 |
We lightly hold | C2 |
A right which brave men died to gain | J |
The stake the cord | D2 |
The axe the sword | D2 |
Grim nurses at its birth of pain | J |
The shadow rend | D2 |
And o'er us bend | D2 |
O martyrs with your crowns and palms | E2 |
Breathe through these throngs | F2 |
Your battle songs | F2 |
Your scaffold prayers and dungeon psalms | G2 |
Look from the sky | H2 |
Like God's great eye | H2 |
Thou solemn moon with searching beam | I2 |
Till in the sight | D2 |
Of thy pure light | D2 |
Our mean self seekings meaner seem | I2 |
Shame from our hearts | J2 |
Unworthy arts | J2 |
The fraud designed the purpose dark | K2 |
And smite away | A |
The hands we lay | A |
Profanely on the sacred ark | K2 |
To party claims | L2 |
And private aims | L2 |
Reveal that august face of Truth | M2 |
Whereto are given | N2 |
The age of heaven | N2 |
The beauty of immortal youth | M2 |
So shall our voice | O2 |
Of sovereign choice | O2 |
Swell the deep bass of duty done | N2 |
And strike the key | C |
Of time to be | C |
When God and man shall speak as one | N2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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